Nevertheless, I hope I may be forgiven for wondering whether part of group selection's romantic appeal stems from the authoritative hammering the theory has received ever since Wynne-Edwards did us the valuable service of bringing it out into the open (The Extended Phenotype, 1982 p115).
It was remarked how "Bakhtinian" this was, & said it was no wonder Chinese intellectuals were interested in Bakhtin's theories about authoritative & underground discourse & the play of voices in a text.
Instead of viewing them as designed to elicit authoritative intuitions to which philosophical theories must defer, they can instead be seen as devices which help us to articulate our implicit assumptions when we are threatened with paradox and have difficulty finding a solution.
An authoritative answer would require a complete theory of quantum gravity, which has not yet been developed (cf. the section on quantum gravity, below).
There's nothing wrong with the theory behind frequentism, but the authoritative-sounding heft it offers researchers masks the method's enormous sensitivity to the parameters they set.
Empirical science is authoritative until one has empirical reason to refine theory.
The theory that the Mawang Dui was the authoritative text assumes that the destructive political frenzy at the end of classical period had not affected the integrity of transmission that produced the Mawang Dui instances.
New social movement theory as laid out by Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato in their authoritative text Civil Society and Political Theory can be seen to have four distinct phases of political action, which I call the four "I's".
The theory of religious assent does permit considerable dissent from authoritative teaching, such as the dissent that greeted Paul VI's teaching against contraception in 1968.
